To expect that the intricacies of science will be pierced by a careless glance, or the eminences of fame ascended without labour, is to expect a peculiar privilege, a power denied to the rest of mankind; but to suppose that the maze is inscrutable to diligence, or the heights inaccessible to perseverance, is to submit tamely to the tyranny of fancy, and enchain the mind in voluntary shackles.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company

We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction. A man is pleased that his wife is dressed as well as other people, and the wife is pleased that she is dressed.

Parents are by no means exempt from the intoxication of dominion.

We have always pretensions to fame which, in our own hearts, we know to be disputable.

He was so generally civil, that nobody thanked him for it.